Bug#326200: xterm: please set eightBitInput: false by default so Alt is usable as such
Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14
Severity: wishlist
Please set eightBitInput: false by default so that, as in konsole and
gnome-terminal, Alt+letter combinations work in, for example, bash,
out of the box.
(I hope this is the right place to attack this problem; I discussed it
with Thomas Dickey at some length to clarify my understanding of
what's going on.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.4-9 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management
ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X pixmap library
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System client data
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